Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at Should be Reading and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading: I’m still trucking through Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell during lunch. I’m actually making decent progress now that it’s back to the characters I’m interested in. I can’t find the connection between future Korea and the old British guy in the nursing home yet. I’m hoping that one becomes clearer soon.
Nothing with I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. If everything goes well, maybe by the end of the year.
I’m picked up again with Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. It’s still early on and I’m reminded what frustrates me about writing from that era, but I’m trying to look past it!
About half-way through Animal Farm by George Orwell. This will have to wait a while before I get into it heavily again because of my new audiobook.
I got All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr on audiobook. I wasn’t expecting it to come in so soon, but I’m excited it did! I only get this for three weeks so I’ll have to work at getting through this chunkster before my hold expires.

Recentlyfinished: Two this week. The first is The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It ends so abruptly that I wasn’t ready for it and thought I was starting a new disk on my way home. The final disk was a series of afterward and essays. I really liked those because it gave good context to the story. I rated it 5/5 Stars.
Saturday morning I finished Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. He’s a wonderful writer and I’m so glad I read this. I’ve read his two mos popular books now and his other ones seem to be significantly less popular so I’m not sure I’ll get to that any time soon.

One review this past week, for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I’ll have a book club discussion for this in December so look forward to that as well.

Reading Next: I’m still planning on Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven after I finish S&S. It’s come so highly recommended by you all that I’m itching to pick it up.
I have another book club book waiting for me by my bedside, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This is a book I recommended to the group so I hope I enjoy it and I hope others do, too. If not, I’ll have a lot to answer for, haha.

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I’ve been thinking about Anne Frank quite a bit lately. “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” So important to remember that in these dark days.

I just finished a light mystery. It was too-too light, so I posted about it as a “must to avoid” kinda thing. And now I’m reading a compilation of Dick Cavett’s NY Times columns, which is fun and very well written.

I’m really impressed with how long you’ve stuck with Cloud Atlas. I would’ve given up long ago. I have All The Light We Cannot See on my TBR, it sounds beautiful, but there are such long queues at my library for both the audio and the physical book.

I have been wanting to get a copy of All The Light We Cannot See for ages now… It sounds like such a great read! And One Hundred Years Of Solitude is without doubt a very interesting, although confusing read. I hope you enjoy your books this week!

Ah yes that will definitely help! I read it the first time for a Uni course (in Spanish), so I guess that helped me understand it better as well. It’s magical realism and quite well done, although it’s not exactly an easy read.

I’ve heard it’s a hard treck but I plan to get it done before our group meets in January. If your book does it, the Michigan Humanities Council probably has some great discussion material on their website, I’d check it out. Happy Wednesday!